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10 CITATIONS • APRIL 2008 LINCOLN ON E-MAIL Continued from page 9. Greeley was mistaken. Publication subjected the editor to the ridicule and embarrassment from which Lincoln had sought to spare him. Telegrams were, in the course of the Civil War, intercepted. Lincoln knew this. He did not fuel the enemy. At a time when many of his generals –certainly not Grant – were preoccupied with thoughts of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln rarely used the terms “South,” “Lee” or “Jefferson.” He wrote and spoke of “the enemy.” He avoided making his statements personal or his opinions inflammatory. 4. PAUSE With the assistance of Halleck, Lincoln’s disappointment with Meade mentioned at the outset of this piece raced from the War Department to Gettysburg. Meade’s tender of his resignation was foreseeable but not a reaction which Lincoln intended. Lincoln smoothed things over. Meade stayed on but the relationship between the two men was no longer productive. Lincoln, though, could not let the dog lie after the exchange had been put behind the two men, or could he? Lincoln positioned himself for the last word. He picked-up his pen and wrote his thoughts for delivery to Halleck and transmission to Meade: “My dear general, I do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee’s escape. He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, have ended the war. As it is, the war will be prolonged indefinitely. Your Golden opportunity is gone, and I am distressed immeasurably because of it.” Lincoln then paused. He might have tapped his desk for a few moments or put the letter aside until the next morning. We will never know. After Lincoln’s assassination, and Meade’s death, an envelope was found in a drawer of Lincoln’s desk. Inside was the telegram-to-be. On the outside of the envelope Lincoln had written these words, “To Gen. Meade, never sent or signed.” William Grewe is a personal injury lawyer in Ventura. See Page 19
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